All this is a back door to registration. UBCs do nothing to stop crime. What other piece of property do you think you should get government permission to sell?

IMO, a non FFL BC hotline would be acceptable. No fees, no 4473, no paperwork, no records kept of BC disposition. You wouldn't be required to call the hotline, but most reasonable people would if they didn't know the buyer. You call a 1-800 number and give name, DOB, DL number. Takes a few minutes and all you get as a response is yes or no. Not required by law, but so simple you'd be crazy not to when selling to a stranger.

The folks behind this kind of BS legislation don't care about stopping crime. They only care about control of LACs. If it smells like sh1t, it usually is. This idea of anything remotely similar to UBCs is total sh1t.

...I think the nics system should be open to use for everyone not just ffl's. Just call up say if its a private sale or not give a name social dl whatever they tell you yes/no make your sale or say bye. No fee needed no paperwork needed. Just a yes no if this person is prohibited or not

I think this is the only answer that would be acceptable to MOST people on both sides of the issue. If somebody is later found to be a prohibited person in possession of a firearm and it is determined that you sold it to them, you better have a validation number or something from that call to the NICS system.

Maybe we could have little ATM-type machines at all the gunshows wired into the NICS system and available for all parties to use, maybe even with a little printed voucher that says "DL# whatever passes and can buy". You want to buy a gun at the gunshow, "you better check yourself" when you come in. I could live with that.

Or maybe we could start tattooing all "prohibited persons" with a little mark behind their ear, maybe a little beastie to indicated they have been bad. No mark of the little beastie, OK to buy; mark of the beastie, no sale.

All this is a back door to registration. UBCs do nothing to stop crime. What other piece of property do you think you should get government permission to sell?

IMO, a non FFL BC hotline would be acceptable. No fees, no 4473, no paperwork, no records kept of BC disposition. You wouldn't be required to call the hotline, but most reasonable people would if they didn't know the buyer. You call a 1-800 number and give name, DOB, DL number. Takes a few minutes and all you get as a response is yes or no. Not required by law, but so simple you'd be crazy not to when selling to a stranger.

The folks behind this kind of BS legislation don't care about stopping crime. They only care about control of LACs. If it smells like sh1t, it usually is. This idea of anything remotely similar to UBCs is total sh1t.

The majority of gun crime is committed by people with multiple felony priors. How do these laws fix that?

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"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." - George Washington

The majority of gun crime is committed by people with multiple felony priors. How do these laws fix that?

Oh, this isn't for that; this is just to satisfy D.C. To fix that, you would have to let multiple felony types finish their sentences on the inside or at least track them on the outside until their sentence is really done.

You are an idiot if you think they all look like this guy. Go back to watching Gangland on the Discovery channel Mr. gang expert.

The more organized gangs are businessmen. They dont even associate with tatted up soldier thugs.

Walk around Worcester MA at night and tell me how many businessmen gang members you see. Where do you live that makes you think gang members are businessmen like, because I live in a town right next to Worcester, it is a true gang run hell hole, and the picture of that tattooed guy is what they all look like

I'm completely for fighting ALL restrictions on our second amendment rights. Concede NOTHING. But as the past has taught us sometimes we are going to lose the initial round. We can, and have, sucessfully fight it in the court system. But even if this background check proposal is passed it will at least be a watered down version of the original. Compared to what we were facing in December we are in good shape. But do I like it? NO!

Oh, this isn't for that; this is just to satisfy D.C. To fix that, you would have to let multiple felony types finish their sentences on the inside or at least track them on the outside until their sentence is really done.

So silly of me to think that anti-crime laws would actually reduce crime.

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"The whole of the Bill (of Rights) is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals.... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." (Albert Gallatin of the New York Historical Society, October 7, 1789)

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." - George Washington

I'm completely for fighting ALL restrictions on our second amendment rights. Concede NOTHING. But as the past has taught us sometimes we are going to lose the initial round. We can, and have, sucessfully fight it in the court system. But even if this background check proposal is passed it will at least be a watered down version of the original. Compared to what we were facing in December we are in good shape. But do I like it? NO!

Problem is that once background checks are universal there will be so many strings attached that no one will pass.

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"The whole of the Bill (of Rights) is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals.... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." (Albert Gallatin of the New York Historical Society, October 7, 1789)

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." - George Washington

One thing I don't understand is they keep saying all it is, is requiring back ground checks at gun shows and online. If I went right now and bought a gun online I wouldn't be able to get it without a background check because it has to be shipped to an ffl. If I went to a gun show and purchased from a vendor I would have to do a background check. So what in Sam hell is this new law they keep talking about doing if its already a law. I just don't understand it or I'm totally missing something somewhere.